Demountable vehicle wheel-rim.



BRYANT.

DEMOUNTABLE TEHIGLE WHEEL RIM, 1 APPLICATION IILEI) JULY 31, 1913. 'I l l, l mente@ Nm. 1'?, im.

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I CHBD S. BRYANT, ULELAND, OH, ASSIGNR Til THE STANDARD VIELBCNG" CIPN'Z, @E CLEVELAN, OHIO, A GOBERATION D?? HEO.

DEMOUNTABLE 'VEHICLE VvTHEEL-lf.

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Application filed July :3l

T0 all whom it may concern.'

Ee iilnoivn that l, iicnAnn S. BRYANT, a citizen of the United States, and a resi dent oi Cleveland, county oi' Cuyahoga, and State .oi'Ohio, have'invented ak new and liseful Improvement. in Demountable Vehicle lllfheehlinis, oi' which the following is a specication, the principle of the invention beine herein explained and the best mode in W ich l have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it rom other inventions. y

The present improvements relate more particularly to that type oi demonntable tire-supporting rim wherein provision is made for the placing on of the tire and its removal from the rim by transversely splitting the latter so as to permit oi its contraction to less than normal diameter. This construction permits of the use of integral ilanffesfor retaining the tire'A on the rim in place 4oit the detachable flanges, one or more ofeiliiehA are otherwise necessary for use ivithfniodern double-tube pneumatic tires, the outer rabe or shoe of which has relatively inextensible edges.

The object the present invention is to provide a. split rim of the type 'just reerred to having a superior iorm 0i split or joint Where its ends come together, as also to provide improved locking ineans for sev curing such ends against relative displacement.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing..

and related ends, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

illustrates one approved inode of securing- 'p suchdemonntable rmi onto the iWheel ielly, theriinshovvn latins fignrebemg furl-her Specication of Letters Patent.

more designed for receiving a elencher tire instead of a plain sided tire as in the case of the rim shown in the preceding figures. My improved rim, as usual in rims of the type in hand, consists, in eiiect, of discontinuous band or annnlus l having its respective ends oi complementary form and nor-A mally held in Contact by the resilience oi' the band. Such band may have 'either the crosssection illustrated in Fig. 4 for the reception of straight sided tires, or that shown in Fig. 5 for the reception of clencher tires. The form of the abutting ends of the band or rim is such as to give the effect, vwhen such ends are in juxtaposition, of a slit, the main portions 2 of which incline to the median line .fo-a0 (Fig. 3) of the rim, such slit further including a short jog 3 between its ends of a different inclination. Preferably the angle oi' inclination of such main por` tions of the rim ends to the median line, as `Well as that ofthe differently inclined portions or jogs, is other than a right angle, ille inclination of the jogs being opposite to that of the main portions as shown in Figs, Q and 3. Asa result of this construction 'the ends oi the band may be brought ton'ether with a lateral movement which is limln order to bold the ends of 'the band to gether,'a loc-king device is provided, preferabi;T of the form shown in Fig. 2, such device consisting of a la-ich 4 pivotal about a pin 5 on one side of 'theslity and having a flaring notch or recess 6 adapted to engage a pin on the opposite side of such recess. The latch is shown in engaging position in full lines, and in open position in (loted lines in the figure of reference. Adapted to cooperate with the forward or iree swinging; 'end oi the latch when inits engaging position, is a lochingmcniber 8 pro-per, pivorally secured to another pin 9 and adapted io be retained in locking position by the action ci a punched-np lug l0 near its free' extremity which engages with av corresponding depression ll in the inner face of the rim (Figs. l and 2).

The engaging face of this locking meniber comprises in part a curved portion 12 lying eccentric with reference to the pivotal asis formed oy-pini) and thus is adapted. not

` jog, such iogs being adapted to inter-engage When said rim-ends are in proper alinernent; of a pin near one end of such rim; and a latch pivot-ally attached near the other end of said rim and adapted to engage said pin; and a member pvotally attached to Saidl rim adjacent to said pin having an eccentric face adapted to bear against said latch to force and retain the Same in its pinengaging position.

Signed by me, this 28 day of July, 1913.`

RICHARD S. BRYANT.

Attested by- J. C. MANTERNACH, R. C. CooLEY. 

